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starring: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker (II), Meg Ryandirected by: Michael Hoffman
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788805028
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0788805029
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Release Date: September 16, 1997
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 19398
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A fantastic premise is utterly blown in this film by director Michael Hoffman and screenwriter Rupert Walters (the two collaborated previously on the winning Some Girls). Robert Downey Jr. plays Robert Merivel, King Charles II's (Sam Neill) spirited young physician in 17th-century England. The king offers to set Merivel up for life in exchange for one small favor: marry the royal mistress (Polly Walker) to provide his highness some cover for his philandering. But Merivel blows it by falling in love with the woman, and he is cast out of his pampered paradise to reinvent himself as a serious man helping victims of the plague beyond the palace's walls. It's a superb notion, and the film looks just terrific, particularly Charles's court, where scientific and artistic innovation flourishes. But somehow the story completely falls apart once Merivel goes on his quest for salvation. The scenes aren't there, the characters are underdeveloped, the drama is clunky. The whole enterprise feels as if an editor tried to salvage a major failure and barely came up with something coherent. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting Movie
Restoration, was an excellent movie, great cast, one I look forward to viewing again & again. Great DVD to add to my historical library collection.
Rating: - Restoration
Won 2 Academy awards, Restoration is Robert Downey at his best!!! Brilliant cast and story. Tragic with a happy ending, please don't miss this.
Rating: - Surprisingly great!
I loved living this period of history, which is not often portrayed, while watching this film. Much sadness and tragedy but a heartwarming ending.
Rating: - Yes, it's beautiful, but it's more than that
Beyond the obligatory enthusiasm about the lush settings and costumes, this is a lovely full arc of character development. Robert Merivel enters as an immature, self-absorbed goofball, with an irrepressible spark of the man he could become glinting through the coating of muck. He gets dragged through a series of harsh refining situations and emerges with the dross burned off. The final act of restoration (and you thought that only referred to the historic time period) is a solid two-tissue moment. ... Read More
Rating: - Eye appealing beyond words,but a questionable screenplay
RESTORATION is a film of great beauty and passionate design.The period detail in this film is rivaled IMO only by AMADEUS and TOPSY-TURVY for sheer in -depth research into every minute detail of costume and set design.Yes, it did win those two Oscars and rightly so!
RESTORATION is one of those magnificent films that is flawed by it's screenplay that was reduced from Rose Tremain's novel.The plot....(here we go!)... concerns one highly intelligent but flawed and immature physician of London ... Read More
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